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Annual change in insulin sensitivity
Isken, Frank, Abraham, U., Weickert, Martin O., Keyhani-Nejad, F., Arafat, Ayman M., Spranger, Joachim, Pfeiffer, Andreas F. H. and Möhlig, Matthias. (2011) Annual change in insulin sensitivity. Hormone and Metabolic Research, Vol.43 (No.10). pp. 720-722. ISSN 0018-5043
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The incidence of both type 2 diabetes and cardiac events is reported to be higher during winter, indicating a putative annual periodic change in insulin sensitivity (IS). Annual differences in IS quantified as HOMA-%S and Matsuda-Sensitivity Index - were analyzed using a cosine wave-fitting algorithm in a cross-sectional study group including 2 385 participants. Additionally, semiannual differences in IS were compared. We found periodicity for HOMA-%S and Matsuda-Sensitivity Index (p = 0.02 or 0.006), which was strengthened after restriction to participants without diabetes ( p = 0.009 or 0.004). The rhythm amplitude of 0.08 indicated moderate changes in IS throughout the year. IS was significantly higher when participants were enrolled during the second vs. the first half of the year (HOMA-%S 112.0 +/- 3.0 % vs. 97.4 +/- 2.4 %, p < 0.001). The impact of the half-year on IS, which remained significant after adjustment for confounders, was again moderate and explained only 0.5% of the variation. IS showed a significant moderate annual periodicity, which may affect the interpretation of studies reporting small changes in IS.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Insulin resistance |
Journal or Publication Title: | Hormone and Metabolic Research |
Publisher: | Georg Thieme Verlag |
Official Date: | September 2011 |
Volume: | Vol.43 |
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Page Range: | pp. 720-722 |
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When Gerda leaves home to track down Kai, the boy she wishes would return her love and who has gone North
with a mysterious countess to study arcane subjects, she little expects to become the captive of a robber baron of Northern Finland and his daughter's pet plaything.
Ritva, the shaman's headstrong daughter comes to realize that Gerda is not just a human pet, fit only to amuse
her. Together they seek the Snow Queen's castle in the Northern fastness.
Gerda's rational and common sense approach, along with Ritva's innate fey nature and her reindeer, Ba, allow them
to release Kai and escape. Ultimately though, Gerda can see that Kai will never truly be interested in her.
As a book for young adults The Snow Queen is just fine, proceeding quickly but in an exciting and
page-turning manner. However, the best of childrens' literature reads well for both youngsters and adults, though obviously on different levels. For an older reader The Snow Queen lacks somewhat in depth and, in several instances, I would have liked a particular scene or narrative to continue longer and in more detail. The narrative often skipped forward several weeks or months. This to a certain extent is probably due to the fairy tale source/style, a genre which
frequently uses such leaps in time or space, but in The Snow Queen this often precluded anything but the sketchiest details of the society and landscapes around the two young women. Particularly in the case of Gerda's life in the robber baron's community, one only gets a fleeting view of their rough communal life, and very little of the Saami traditions of Ritva, her mother and of the Saami wise-women. I, and presumably older juvenile readers, would find The Snow Queen far more fascinating if the book had delved in much greater detail in these areas.
Perhaps a function of my adult sensibilities, but some passages seemed rather unrealistic, even for a fairy tale. Gerda spends several months among the robber baron community, under the protection of Ritva, but apparently does nothing
and is in no way involved in day to day life. I would think it unlikely that a society living under such harsh conditions would allow someone consuming food and water and having shelter among them to have a completely free-ride, even if they were the shaman's daughter's little pet. Additionally, her experience living as a captive among these people seems to have had no effect whatsoever on her personality. Besides this, when Ritva and Gerda confront the Snow Queen, they seem, ultimately, to have a very easy time defeating her, enduring overall a minimum of hardships.
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Overall, The Snow Queen is a book which should entertain its target audience -- the younger component of the young adult market -- but which will leave the more mature reader perhaps wanting more. The two young women are certainly interesting and sympathetic characters and their adventures worth a read if for no
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Thanks Alva.
Gee Sadonya, some of this sounds a lot like where and when I grew up in NC, only mine was 20 yrs earlier in time LOL. Our neighborhood was part of the "nicer" poor black area I guess, as we all had window glass.
The insides of all the houses I remember as painted, but with whatever color one could get one's hands on, probably leftover from someone else's "job" - everyone's 4 walls per room might not all be the same color, but they tried to blend or match the colors so it didn't look too strange. I have to laugh now, since it is not too uncommon to see a lovely room in a home now with one wall painted a different color or shade as a sort of highlighting. The outside was painted, generally white, and most of the large yards were kept neat and tidy, and well planted with "umbrella trees" and "snowballs". There were 2 steps up to a small front porch, with just enough space for 1 chair. The back porch was very small, perhaps about the size of a square of a now-a-day's sidewalk.
The yards were huge!! Our back yard ran straight back for 2 blocks!! I KNOW this to be true, because over the early years when I was growing up, the city bought the land (took it, really) and cut 2 streets through behind and parallel to ours... and there was still a big back yard left by today's standards.
(Out in the country, some of the homes were unpainted, inside and out, but most of them were "really" poor - many were still tenant farmers or share croppers.) There was a middle step or level a few blocks away from us that was economically (I guess) between our house and those in the country, which we called a "shotgun" house. Don't know if anyone knows of them in these days...It had a hall that ran straight through from the front door to the back door, with a couple of rooms on each side of the hall. People said someone could be shot off the back porch, which was miniscule, and the perpetrator could escape by running straight through and out the front, which porch was only a tad bigger. Most of these were unpainted too, and had only one window per room. My feeling was that people rented these, rather than owning them.
Our street was not only unpaved (few streets in black neighborhoods were at that time), but there were large ditches that ran along the edges on both sides of the street, with a large board or plank across to the yard. (This was used to exit a car and be able to get to the house.) In bad weather, you hoped and prayed the wind hadn't blown the plank aside or into the ditch! Neither was there a real walkway up to the house, just a footpath through the lush grass.
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For heat and cooking, we had several little potbellied stoves that burned wood and coal. In the winter, sometimes they'd heat a "flatiron" and wrap it in cloth to keep your feet warm under a mountain of blankets and quilts. These covers were so heavy, you sometimes wondered if you'd be able to turn over in your sleep. When we finally upgraded to oil heat, we thought we had died and gone to heaven LOL. The elders were afraid the "fumes" really would kill us, and often warned us to leave the windows open at night. Finally got a gas stove for cooking.
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- addie 2012/11/15 21:36:34Tina FeyGood list, but there are so many more that could be on a list like this one.
Joan Rivers was extremely funny when she was just a stand up, Phyllis Diller, Dorothy Lamour was a great comic actress... - laydeelapis 2012/11/15 20:53:17
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Every womon on this list is good or wonderful; but I never understood or got Carol Burnetts humor(nothing against her).
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Yellow Eyed Penguin Reserve: This Reserve is home to the world's most endangered penguin - the yellow-eyed penguin. The Yellow Eyed Penguin Reserve is situated near the end of the Otago Peninsula and is five minutes from the Albatross Colony. The reserve has been enormously successful in increasing the number of yellow-eyed penguins.
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"From arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style."
Hey, I asked the question. Pointed at something and asked a question. What more do you want? An aphorism? That would be carrying on to excess, I think.
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- Hazy Dave said...
Going from a typewriter (even with Liquid Paper) to a computer certainly makes it easier to distill one's thoughts into something at least somewhat organized and grammatical. At least, that's the theory. I seldom did more than one draft of a paper in high school or college. Now I can spend three hours on a 2 paragraph memo!
- KLDAVIS said...
Correlation ≠ Causation
I'm highly skeptical of this line of reasoning (especially with respect to Nietzsche). His headaches left him bedridden more often than not, and in such cases he dictated his letters and essays. I doubt a clear pattern could be distinguished between the typed and dictated works. There are myriad other factors at work here.
Google (and/or the typewriter) are but one piece of a larger puzzle. - 6/10/08, 4:04 PM
- George said...
- bearbee said...
Did going from the horse-plow to tractor make us stupid;
- whatever to printing press
- horse-buggy to the auto
- radio to tv (ok an arguement can be made)
- pencil-paper to calculator?
Does technology make us stupid or efficient with different skill sets but physically lazy? - 6/10/08, 4:08 PM
- Palladian said...
God, I got to the second paragraph of this snore-fest and gave up. One thought came to my mind about the article:
That's not writing, it's typing. - 6/10/08, 4:23 PM
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- Ron said...
Guggle has maade us smarter, quicker so we r all 6 Million Dollar Men! Ha! Take that, dead poopy head Nee-chee!
Technology is just the salt on the rim of the glass of our souls as we drink deep the Margarita of Wisdom in our never-ending quest for the tequila buzz of Knowledge!
Aphorism enough for you? - 6/10/08, 4:25 PM
- Anthony said...
I'd expect the opposite experience. Writing longhand is tedious, and I'll try to be as concise as possible, and say as little as possible, while in longhand. Typing allows me to more fully develop an argument or explanation.
- Revenant said...
The authors have confused specialization with stupidity.
Humans are very good at certain cognitive tasks. We are not, however, good at remembering things. Search engines like Google let us offload important cognitive tasks onto things that are better at them, namely computers, just as domesticated animals and, later, internal combustion engines let us offload physical labor onto things that were better suited for it.
Like the author, I've also lost a lot of the interest I once had in books. But that's because books are so limited in what they can provide. Like a television program, they spoon-feed you information in a specific order and format that may not suit your needs or interests.
Hypertext is a vastly superior medium. I'll spend hours reading through Wikipedia or other online information sources, following the thread of my interest from topic to topic, drilling down into specific subjects of particular interest or following tangents off into unexpected areas.
For example, a couple weeks back a Bob Marley song came on my mp3 player. So I looked up Bob Marley on Wikipedia, hopping from there to Rastafarianism to Emperor Haille Selassi of Ethiopia (who, to my surprise, is the central figure of the religion), and from there to various articles about colonial politics. No book could have given me that. Even if I happened to own books on all those things, which I do not, I would have had to hunt around in them for the information I was looking for, and it is doubtful I'd have bothered doing so on a lazy Sunday morning.
An ordinary American citizen has more information at his fingertips today than the most educated men in the world did a generation ago. It is just a question of whether or not you know how to make use of that information. - 6/10/08, 5:03 PM
- William said...
Nietzsche's peachy.
- Trevor Jackson said...
Before I got my first cellphone I had probably 2 to 3 dozen telephone numbers memorized. Now I know about half that number at best. Is my brain missing out on the exercise of recall and storage or have I freed up space? Does the brain even work that way?
School kids are also now free to use calculators on more math tests, but they're starting algebra in elementary school.
As for Nietzsche's typewriter and writing, consider Wallace's Infinite Jest. Before the word processor, it's unlikely a book of that size and scope would ever have been written. - 6/11/08, 5:12 AM
- LutherM said...
I'd attempt to examine content, ideas examined in the terms of the absence of writing to writing's various forms;
Hieroglyphics seem incompatible with ideas like, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
They may, however, fit quite well with "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.".
The alphabet seems to work quite well in transcribing Homer. Did the discipline of writing improve the playwrights? Consider "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God". AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon, 1, 177. Is it different when the author writes a letter? "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." PAUL Romans 8: 38-39
Perhaps Chomsky could shed some light on the subject - in another sense, perhaps Henry Adams already has.
(Did the discipline of writing influence "The Dynamo and the Virgin"?)
"Things are seldom as they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream." Sir William S. Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore, act 1 - 6/11/08, 6:53 AM
- Mitch H. said...
I have to wonder how much of this is the anxiety of aging boomers and the older gen-xers losing their mental acuity & blaming it on that damned Google.
And since 1882 was mid-way through Nietzche's productive career, I suspect that particular analysis of his post-1882, post-typewriter material as "aphoristic" is objectively unsupportable.
In short, you're just getting dumber, grandpa. - 6/11/08, 9:12 AM


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This put me at odds with the crew here from PlanetNintendo, who game the game a whopping review score of 94. "Look here," I said. "The last Mario game, Mario 64, was groundbreaking. A genuine 3D world that you could explore. When you went to a new area you had the freedom to roam and experiment and try to get all kinds of stars. But in Sunshine, every area is broken into episodes, and you pretty much have to play through them linearly. It's almost a step backwards."
You can imagine that that went over about as well as a cherry bomb in the UN. Eyes narrowed and squinted daggers at me. "Oh yeah?" they asked. "What would YOU have wanted?" Now THAT, dear reader, is a question that probed the depths of my soul. Where did I want the Mario games to go? It occurred to me that I've been spoiled -- yes, SPOILED by more recent titles. For instance, Grand Theft Auto 3 gives me the ability to cruise around an entire city taking missions on a whim. And Battlefield 1942 has forever ruined me on war games -- I can never play a combat flight simulator anymore without wanting to land somewhere and jump in a tank. So what did I want from Mario, the latest game on the most powerful system Nintendo's ever produced? Well, nothing short of COMPLETE FREEDOM OF ACTION. A little something I would've called:
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First off, the whole island would've been open to explore from the beginning, and packed with delicious missions to take from day one. The missions would be general, but it would be up to ME to execute them. For instance, I gotta get 100 coins, right? It's up to me how to get them. Maybe I collect them by jumping up on weird floating platforms. Or, maybe I extort them from a crooked Mushroom accountant. Maybe I break some guy's kneecaps and take the money -- if you look into Mario's family it's not hard to find connections to the mob. Maybe Mario jacks a cop car and drives it through the wall of a casino. Now we're playing!
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One thing I wouldn't want from any Mario game is some pretense of a set soap-opera story that tries to be drama but ends up sounding like bad Anime. You wouldn't find any corny Metal Gear Solid 2 dialogue like this:
Toadsworth: Even though we've technically stepsisters, I find myself sexually attracted to you.
Peach: That's not a part of the simulation!
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As a group of four Canadians travelling together, this is the first time we have had so many negative things to say. Embarkation went well.
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As a strong hurricane heads towards the coast, people prepare - boarding up houses, packing the car, and evacuating. These storms can spell disaster for people in hurricane prone areas. They are the most powerful of all weather systems. They are also huge storms – the average hurricane spreads across 340 miles.
Hurricanes form from disturbances in the atmosphere over warm, tropical ocean water. They die down when they move over land or out of the tropics and into cooler latitudes. These storms are called hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons or tropical cyclones in other areas of the world. Because of the Coriolis effect, the storms rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. At the center of the rotating storm is a small area of calm weather and clear skies called the eye of the storm. Surrounding the calm of the eye are the most intense winds of the storm and thick clouds of the eyewall.
When a hurricane approaches land, strong waves and wind batter coastal towns. Hurricanes also cause a tremendous amount of rain in a short amount of time, which can cause rivers to flood their banks and flood areas that are both near the coast and further inland. But most coastal hurricane damage is typically flooding caused by storm surge – the temporary rise in sea level that happens as winds of the storm push water towards the coast. The low pressure of the storm also causes some storm surge. If storm surge happens at the same time as a high tide, the effect is more intense and more areas are flooded.
Not all storms are the same. Large and strong storms cause much more damage than small storms. In the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is used to describe the size of a hurricane.
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Giants are part of mythology, right? Here I stand before a 'genuine' giant's grave, looking across a dry river valley towards another wedge tomb. The finger post would like to say that this one belongs to a giantess and the other a giant. The shaman in me says 'Humph!" to the finger post. One of the group I am tour leading says that since this point is higher than the other wedge tomb it is obvious that the higher status male would be buried here. The feminist in me who is familiar with goddess lore wants to say 'Humph!" to him, too.
PaganSquare is a community blog space where Pagans can discuss topics relevant to the life and spiritual practice of all Pagans.
Blessings of biodiverse Bealtaine! This is my favourite season in Ireland and with my lane bursting with scores of wild plants, the cuckoo calling and the swifts shooting in and out of my neighbour's barn you really can sense the fertility of the earth. All is well and the wheel turns on and on.
This past weekend I was leading a Dublin radio presenter around this sacred landscape for a program on New Perspectives in Ireland: Themes, Dreams, Myths and Ecology. John is a self-proclaimed pessimist about the planet even as he keeps planting trees for Peace Forest Ireland.
...Until I moved to this magical place first settled by the mythic Tuatha dé Danaan I, too, was a fairy agnostic. But when the land energy is so potent and palpable my disbelief was easily suspended. So yeah, I believe and have also come to know. Unlike the Doubting Disciple of the Christian gospel I don't need to have seen to believe. It's enough to feel. But once you do get the vibe the communication in my personal experience gets more direct.
Ireland has recently conducted national DNA research that asks the question of what actually makes the Irish...well, Irish? As a country conditioned by emigration the Celtic tiger of the 1990's and early Noughties brought an influx of new blood into the population. Cue some national soul searching.
If you read the earliest Irish texts, such as the Book of Invasions, Ireland has always been rather 'multi-cultural' although that was probably not the fashionable interpretation in earlier times. This DNA survey has noted that along with the Irish being well connected with the Scots and other British populations, there is a strong marker for Spanish, specifically, Basque, lineage.
...Welcome to my world one that is quite literally magical. In this blog I'll share how a relict goddess, the legends of her devotees and the earth that is their homeplace have nurtured my spiritual path.
In 2001 after a protracted leave taking from England, my Irish born partner and I were led to Ireland guided by Yeats' synchronicities, goddess guidance and the ridiculous spinning of a pendulum over a map in County Cavan, a place neither of us remotely entertained as our new Irish residence.


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Yi, Youjae and Nataraajan, Rajan and Gong, Taeshik (2011) Customer participation and citizenship behavioral influences on employee performance, satisfaction, commitment, and turnover intention. Journal of Business Research, 64 (1). pp. 87-95. ISSN 0148-2963
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Despite increasing awareness of the importance of customer behaviors in service delivery, understanding consequences relating to employees receives little attention. Therefore, using data from a large electronic firm relating to customers, employees, and managers, this study examines the effects of customer participation and citizenship behavior on employee performance, satisfaction and commitment, as well as indirect effects on turnover intention. Furthermore, the study examines how similarity and likeability moderate the effects of customer participation and citizenship behavior on employee satisfaction. The study also includes a laboratory experiment and provides further support for causal direction. The article discusses marketing implications of the results.
Item type: | Article |
ID code: | 33541 |
Keywords: | customer participation behavior, customer citizenship behavior, employee performance, employee satisfaction, employee commitment, turnover intention, citizenship behavioural influences, Marketing. Distribution of products, Marketing |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Commerce > Marketing. Distribution of products |
Department: | Strathclyde Business School > Marketing |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2011 15:25 |
Last modified: | 08 Feb 2015 02:31 |
URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/33541 |
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THE APARTMENT: Cosy apartment in an old Modernist building (with its original decoration) in the core of the picturesque Poble Sec district close to the very center of Barcelona.
The apartment has two bedrooms (one spacious double and one single), a living & dining room, bathroom, one fully equipped kitchen, a balcony and lots of sunlight (in the living room and the main room)!! Wifi Internet available and included. It is on a 4th floor without elevator, so stay away if you are not fond of stairs!! ;-) On the other hand, since the apartment is so high up, and faces the East, it is quite sunny, particularly in the mornings and early afternoon.
Our pleasant and welcoming apartment aims to be your perfect hideaway for your BCN stay… Ideal place for 2-3 people, it can comfortably welcome up to 4 people.
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THE POBLE SEC NEIGHBORHOOD, RIGHT BY THE CITY CENTER: It is located in the core of the Poble Sec district, and old modernist and now trendy multi-cultural neighborhood with a unique atmostphere: you will find terraces, nice and varied restaurants, great little wine/tapas bars, local stores, pedestrian streets and cultural amenities.
From its pedestrian streets you can take a nice walk down to the main points of BCN's old downtown: Ciutat Vella, with the Cathedral and historic streets and buildings or the Raval district, famous for its cultural diversity, nightclubs, museums of contemporary art and its streets full of charm. Both are just about 10 mins. walk away
Located on the doorstep of the Montjuic Mountain (Park), the ideal place if you love to enjoy some nature (and fantastic views of BCN!!) without leaving the city. Also a great location, if you are into running or any other outdoor sport activity. If you the sports spectator type, check out the Sports Museum and the 1992 Olympic Stadium!! Montjuic offers also a wealth of cultural attractions such as the Miró Museum, the Etnology museum, the MNAC (National Museum of Catalan Art), the Caixa Forum contemporary art museum, the "Pueblo Español" , etc… along with the well known Magic Fountain of Montjuic.
NEARBY PUBLIC TRANSIT: There are 2 metros within 5 minutes walking distance (Poble Sec metro station –L3- and Paralel•l –L3, L2-) and nearby many theatres which offer cabaret, musicals, comedy and drama. There are also plenty of buses to the beach and downtown.
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Anton ist ein sehr netter Gastgeber mit guten Tipps für den Barcelona-Aufenthalt.
Anton is really nice and welcoming host. Welcomed us with a bottle of cava and all the much needed instructions for getting around. The apartment is simple, but cosy. Enough space for a family or a group of friends. Tiny kitchen, but equipped with everything you need. A bit of dusting plus plumbing service won't hurt though. Note that it is the last floor the building, so you will have to climb many stairs before you get home. The street is quite and safe. There is an excellent supermarket within short distance (with fresh fish and everything else) and small grocery shops around. Five minutes work to metro. In short: great location for its price.
Anton was very welcoming, showing me around, explaining how everything works.
His apartment is perfectly located in the center of the city, fully equipped, very clean, and pleasantly quiet.
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Fantastic location in a pretty neighbourhood. Very convenient to get to and from the airport and also the main sights. Anton was very friendly, hospitable and went out of his way to make me feel welcome, recommending things to see and places to eat. Apartment was fine for a long weekend to use as a base to see the city.
Nous avons passé de très bonnes vacances à Barcelone, nous étions dans le quartier de Poble Sec à quelques minutes des ramblas, de la place d'Espagne, de la place Cataluna , de Barcelonetta.Nous avons pratiquement tout fait à pieds.Dès notre arrivée nous avons été accueilli chaleureusement par Anton, l'appartement est agréable et propre avec une bonne (website hidden) y a plein de restaurants de tapas au pieds de l'immeuble et des commerces aussi dans les rues adjacentes.
Anton è stato veramente molto disponibile, ci ha concesso di lasciare le valigie prima dell'orario di check in, molto professionale e puntuale. L'appartamento è al quarto piano senza ascensore, ma curato, pulito, letti comodi, non manca nulla, nemmeno il balcone. La zona è tranquilla, ci sono un sacco di parchi vicini ed è facile raggiungere il centro e la fiera.
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Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., makes clear to the St. Louis Beacon that she won't be running and hiding from President Obama, even as she faces a tough reelection bid in a state the president's almost certainly not going to win.
McCaskill said she will be asking Obama to stump for her and help her raise money, but added that she doesn't always agree with him.
Vulnerable Democrats in comparable positions should take notice. Opponents will tie McCaskill to Obama no matter what she does: She was a major surrogate in 2008 and there are plenty of photos of the two for TV ads (Republican John Brunner has already run one tying the two together). Running away from Obama will only generate negative press coverage (when McCaskill missed an early October Obama fundraiser, that was a story).
Another way of looking at it: If you are going to be tied to an unpopular president, you may as well let him use his standing to help you raise some money along the way.


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By Leslie Jorgensen Gov. Bill Ritter has proposed a lean $7.1 billion General Fund budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 10. The new budget would cover a projected $1.02 billion revenue shortfall. However, the smorgasbord — which includes the elimination of tax exemptions and credits as well as program cuts — also might curb the public's appetite for candy bars, soda pop, on-line purchases and fuel-efficient cars. Denver Democrats' Edward M. Kennedy Dinner
By Jody Hope Strogoff Denver Democrats, gathered for their first annual Edward M. Kennedy dinner last weekend, were witness to the announcement that the long-awaited historic — and contentious — health care reform bill championed by the late U.S. Senator from Massachusetts had narrowly passed the House of Representatives, 220-215. Honorees presented with awards by Denver Democrats
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Project M54 Engine: Fuel Injection Rail
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Links to other parts of the project http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=899347 Removal of the fuel injection rail is required need to change an injector, or if you want to remove the intake manifold. Before I start, I looked at the methods described in the Bentley manual, and other DIYs that have been posted in different places. I used them all, and found most quite difficult. I tried a whole bunch of things over and over and eventually came up with this method. The problem with the fuel rail is there are a number of things layered here, and if attempted in the wrong order, or in the wrong way, it is easy to break things. You will notice that the oil separator pipe at the top of the intake manifold in the photos is covered in tape. This is because it was broken when I attempted to do it as per another DIY. The way I will show you I think is much easier, and much less likely to break something. Also, most methods talk about releasing the fuel pressure from the fuel rail before you start. If you are actually going to remove the injectors from the rail then this is obviously required. If you plan to just remove the intake manifold, then I would not release the pressure. If you want to remove the pressure and fuel from the rail, this is the way I would do it. 1. Remove the fuel pump fuse. 2. Start the car and wait until is starts to run rough. Then turn it off. 3. Disconnect the battery. 4. Put a rag over the shraeder valve on the front of the rail, and then press down on the pin to release the remaining pressure in the rail. (the shraeder valve is the name given to the valve that you use to pump up your tyres. The one on the fuel rail is exactly the same.) 5. Connect a hand bicycle pump to the shraeder valve at the front of the rail and give a good number of pumps to try and remove as much of the fuel out of the rail as possible. Finally, I have no idea what the funny plastic thing that sits on top of the intake manifold that receives the air from the oil separator. I have called it the "oil separator part of the intake manifold" or OSIM. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 The methods I have seen published elsewhere did not have you disconnect the OSIM, they said to just disconnect the oil separator pipe from the two connectors below it. This is difficult. There's no space to get your fingers in, and you need to use some long nose pliers. The connectors are really stuck on, and when the eventually release (with you pulling as hard as you can) things break easily. This is why I think it is better to lift off the OSIM, with the pipe coming with it and out of the way. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 Once the oil separator pipe is out of the way, you can remove the injector harness. The first photo here has the injector removed so you can see easily what you need to do. Use a small pick tool to get under the clips and remove them. This is the biggest pain of the whole job. Make sure you have a magnetic pickup tool touching the clip as you try and remove them, they can spring all over the place. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 Once all clips have been removed from each injector connector, you can easily pull off the harness. Intake cam sensor and intake air temp sensor connectors will also need to be disconnected. Place the whole harness out of the way. Now remove the small bolts that hold on the rail. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 And gently pry up the fuel rail. Don't just pull it up by hand. You will need to use a lot of force, and when it gives, it will happen very quickly. Easy to break something expensive. If you do it as shown it is dead easy. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 When all the injectors are out, you can lift and rotate the whole rail with injectors still attached as shown. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 There is a flexible fuel hose at the back of the engine that connects to the fuel rail. This hose is held in place by a clip at the back of the intake manifold. Release this by getting your hand down the back under the manifold and unclip it. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 If you want to remove the fuel rail completely now is the time to do it. You will need to have removed the fuel pressure from the fuel rail as described at the top. Then you can disconnect the flexible hose from the fuel rail. The photos show the hose still attached at the clip, but this would be much easier to do when the hose is removed from the clip. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 If you do need to remove an injector, this is how you do it. Again, you will need to have removed the fuel pressure from the rail to do this. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 There you have it. Reassembly is the opposite, but is much simpler. Tips I have are: 1. Connect the injectors to the rail before putting the injectors in the intake manifold. 2. Push in the injectors and rail by hand into the intake manifold before putting in screws. Don't try and screw them down to seat them. It won't work. To help get the injectors into place, I smeared the smallest amount of engine oil around the O Ring that goes into the intake manifold, and they slid in easily. 3. Have the injector harness clips placed back into their correct position before attaching the harness. The harness connectors will slide on and clip in easily. 3. Same procedure for the OSIM as for seating the injectors. I couldn't find any torque figures for reinstallation on either BMW TIM or the Bentley manual. Just make sure they are well attached but not over tightened. http://forum.e46fanatics.com/attachm...1&d=1328032119 |
Nice DIY! I had to replace mine a few years ago when I made an error while drilling it for my Nitros system... It gets pretty tight on the back end and I am blessed with these two banana bunches for hands too. They were sore for a week afterwards.
I didn't have such a well laid out DIY either. Bravo! |
Not too many DIY guides on here with this much detail. Nicely done!
thanks for taking the time to show so much detail. Im sure this will come in handy to many people and help save them lots of money.
Also very nice - TY
This is an nice detailed write up, but you are making a mountain out of a molehill.
I've had my fuel rail off a few times now. There is no need to remove the air distributor. The clips for the injector harness are easily done like this: Get some long nosed pliers and push one side of the first clip down the side of its housing (it'll move there and stay there easily), and, while applying slight upwards pressure on the harness with your hands, push the other side of the clip out a bit. That plug will then be free. Keep the lifting pressure in place so that it doesn't clip back down, and move on to the next injector plug. When you get to the end, the whole assembly will lift free easily. |
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Nice writeup!! I was able to replace all 6 injectors today with this in a hour!!
Looked alot more complicated than it really was. Helps to have an extra set of hands with a magnetic pick up tool just in case. I didn't disconnect the fuel line and had just enough room to put new injectors into 5 and 6. Best writeup on this!! |
FYI, the part is called the "distribution piece" or as carl0s said "air distributor". I'm guessing it feeds the vacuum system, and has some equalizing effect too.
Nice write-ups; making for a pleasant Friday evening in cold as f*ck Canada right now. Thank you. |
Update: I removed the intake manifold on my car this weekend to replace the oil separator. All the stuff I have above worked well, but the only thing was that it's not possible to rotate the rail up and out of the way like I have in the photo above. The bulkhead behind it gets in the way. The only way to get it out of the way was to get my hand around the back and disconnect the clip and the hose connection. Then it can be manoeuvered out. Also, the most difficult part was, as described above, getting the clips off the injector harness.
Wish me luck, I'm about to take my injectors out to clean.
dude you just saved me i was fighting with that fuel line
Anyone know the part number on this metal clip? One sprang off into oblivion, and I can't find it for the life of me on realoem...
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BDA President Andy Parsons echoed that sentiment at the Blu-ray press conference Monday, telling BetaNews that it's normal for new technology to change and older hardware to become obsolete
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Still, the confusion will only likely further alienate existing and potential customers of the nascent format.
One key Blu-ray developer told BetaNews that although he builds discs for studios including Fox and Lionsgate, he did not buy a Blu-ray player for personal use.
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ROFL, so they blame HD-DVD for having there **** together first so we had no choice but to release our beta crap on the public. Instead of pumping millions into buying there movie partners they should have put there money into developing a good player. If all the movie industry would have been neutral and made HD DVD & Blueray for all movies from the beginning HD DVD would have won hands down.
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European Menopause and Andropause Society Publishes Four Position Statements about the Post-reproductive Health of Women
Amsterdam, 2 September, 2010 - Elsevier announced today the publication of four important position statements from the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in the journal Maturitas (http://www.maturitas.org/) on common management problems in the post-reproductive health of women. The statements cover the management of the menopause in the context of obesity, epilepsy, endometriosis and premature ovarian failure. Each statement has summary recommendations as a quick aid for the busy clinician.
"The expanding ageing female population means that clinicians increasingly have to deal with post-reproductive health problems," said Professor Serge Rozenberg, President of EMAS. "EMAS has risen to the challenge and is providing clear guidance on the position statements covering both hormone and non hormone therapy (HT) options, as well as complementary and alternative therapies."
The statements were published in the July 2010 issue and are summarized as follows:
(1) Obesity: Obesity affects about 20% of the adult world population and 44% of postmenopausal women. Obesity is a major risk factor for many diseases including diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia and hypertension resulting in cardiovascular disease, as well as venous thromboembolism and breast and endometrial cancer. Thus transdermal (patch, gel) HT is preferred over oral tablets because of the reduced risk of venous thromboembolism. (doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2010.03.025)
(2) Epilepsy: Women with epilepsy may undergo the menopause 3- 5 years early and can be at increased risk of osteoporortic fracture depending on their antiepileptic drug use. If HT is used, these women need to be closely monitored by specialists. Calcium and vitamin D supplements should be considered. Herbal preparations should be avoided as their efficacy is uncertain and they may interact with anti epileptic drugs. (doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2010.03.0
(3) Endometriosis: Endometriosis is a debilitating gynaecological condition frequently associated with infertility and abdominal pain. A major concern with HT is disease recurrence and the authors conclude that, although the available data are limited, it may be safer to prescribe either continuous combined estrogen–progestogen hormone therapies or tibolone in both hysterectomised and non-hysterectomised. Women not needing or not wanting HT or those who are advised against should be offered alternative treatment for climacteric symptoms or skeletal protection. (doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2010.04.018)
(4) Premature ovarian failure: Premature ovarian failure (POF) is the menopause before the age of 40 which may occur naturally or after surgery or chemotherapy. Untreated, it increases the risk of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinsonism, and general cognitive decline. Therefore, the statement clearly recommends the use of HT until the average age of the natural menopause, i.e. the early 50s. (doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2010.04.011)
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About European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS)
The European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) was founded to promote the study of all aspects of midlife health and beyond in both men and women and to advance the interchange of research and clinical experience between its members. EMASalso participates in international congresses related to the menopause and andropause. Through its activities, EMAS aims to guarantee and provide the same standard of education and information throughout Europe on post reproductive health in both genders. The statutes of EMAS have been submitted to and accepted by the Swiss Authorities and the Society is now acknowledged by the Swiss Government and the International Menopause Society as the official Regional European Menopause Society. EMAS also belongs to the Council of affiliated Menopause Societies (CAMS) of the International Menopause Society (IMS).
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